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This ranks right up there with the marketing brilliance of the US Mint in advertising new money.
And TIA for the billions we want in 2009.
John
They should show the real ad… a fat Cerberus executive sitting on his yacht in the Caribbean on Xmas holiday happy with the knowledge that his private investment was just saved by the US taxpayers.
Why don’t you thank us by getting rid of the Sebring, Avenger, Compass, Caliber, Aspen, Durango, Nitro, Commander, PT Cruiser, and Crossfire, and replace them with something that isn’t an insult to the average American car buyer’s intelligence?
At least somebody in DET has some vague idea that even when one believes the world owes them a living, it is far more likely to give to an appreciative squeegee dude.
$100k.
Merry Christmas from Uncle Cerberus Scrooge.
@ yankinwaoz
I couldn’t agree more.
I am still waiting for a badge engineered Challenger made into a new Chrysler Cordoba. That would rock.
That photo looks like it was taken ten years ago.
@ Vorenus:
It was taken a while ago…. circa 1983….
What a lovely collection of photogenic people. For some bizarre reason, I don’t think these are actual Chrysler employees. And I’d estimate that it cost about Eleventy billion dollars. Oh wait, that’s how much money GM and Chrysler need in 2009 to keep building sh1tmobiles that no one wants.
These jackasses will never get it. Here’s an idea for you, Bob. How about if you run your company in an upright and ethical manner while building quality products, honor commitments you make to your employees, suppliers and customers, make an honest attempt to turn a profit, and keep your hands out of taxpayers’ pockets. I’ll make you a deal: do those things and you will NEVER have to take out an ad to solicit my favorable opinion of you or your company.
Good money after bad.
Can we right the Chrysler bad debt off our taxes this year?
That photo looks like it was taken ten years ago.
I think you’re right… tie, hairdos, clothes.
Where are these folks from?
It looks to me like a sloppily put together montage of photobucket images. Which is actually kind of appropriate.
The ad agency probably just used a stock photo.
Dammit, they could at least give us some return address labels like a proper charity.
I throw away the return address labels if I haven’t given to the charity, but unfortunately I’ve already given to this charity.
Look; all of you…
Never forget that one of Cerberus’s
vice presidents is Dan Quayle.
In lieu of the stock crowd photo, I wish they would have gone with a shot of the new Dodge Ram driving through an exploding US Capitol building .
I was going to say that Chrysler certainly isn’t “America’s Car Company” as they state in the first line of text. But I guess they kind of are, now. Just not in a good way.
Those bobbleheads in the photo never stood in the same room with one another. Pick almost any two that are next to each other and you’ll see that light and shadow hits them at different angles.
“Why don’t you thank us by getting rid of the Sebring, Avenger, Compass, Caliber, Aspen, Durango, Nitro, Commander, PT Cruiser, and Crossfire, and replace them with something that isn’t an insult to the average American car buyer’s intelligence?”
Wow, that is quite a list. And truly embarassing, every single one…
You forgot the Patriot though; no reason for it to get a free pass.
F’ off and die, Bob.
Is that picture new or is it from Chrylser’s last bailout?
How much of our money went to pay for this crappy ad?
The first line of the body copy reads “Thank you for investing in Chrysler.” Someone needs to tell Nardelli that a loan isn’t an investment – and we want our money back with interest.
No Ken you are not getting that money back.
President BO will soon be making that payoff look like chicken feed.
Thank you America? Get your lips off of the back of my trousers, I didnt authorize this! Thank the sell out politicians, I will never buy from Chrysler again. Ever.
Thank you? Like I had a choice……….
“Thanks” usually is due when someone has volunteered a helping hand. There was no free will involved here. “America” didn’t get a say in this “investment”.
A great example of what money gets spent on when someone else is footing the bill.
I think the first draft read
“Thanks, for the cash, suckers. Love, Cerberus.”
“This ranks right up there with the marketing brilliance of the US Mint in advertising new money.”
Advertising new money is brilliant. Did you realize that the state quarters program alone has increased the average per-household wealth by $12.50? Ooops… not quite yet, not everyone has found a Hawaii quarter yet.
Responding to this one in an appropriate manner was easy. All I did was cut and paste the following part from the Article above this one:
” Our second story is so repulsive and national-pride-obliterating that we have to hide it behind the jump. Grab a barf bag and a change of citizenship form and check it out… “
That first bullet point sounds like a flat-out lie: what besides a new Grand Cherokee is in the pipeline? Aside from the Challenger, you’d be hard pressed to find any Chrysler that people would love to get their hands on.
thanks for letting someone else decide to spend your money to help us keep build crap cars that we can try and sell to you
Aside from the Challenger, you’d be hard pressed to find any Chrysler that people would love to get their hands on.
Wrangler JK… That is a pretty neat vehicle, but a niche.
Those are the folks that Verizon rejected for their advertisements.
Wow. I had opposed the auto bailout, but that was before I realized what an utterly correct mix of genders and skin colors is shown in this stock Getty Images crowd photo that was purchased by Chrysler’s marketing people. Now I see the error in my ways. We should give Cerberus Chrysler even MORE money with which to buy their yachts employ their diverse peoples.
“You wouldn’t buy our shitty cars but we got your money anyway!”
God forbid a retail company with a damaged reputation should actually advertise and try to curry favor with consumers and taxpayers. If they hadn’t run the ad, the usual suspects would be complaining that they’re ungrateful.
Detroit can do no right.
There’s an old punk band from LA named after an idiom that’s rather descriptive of some discussions about Detroit. A rough approximation would be “echo chamber”. Or, “amen chorus” if you prefer paleocon rhetoric.
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I think it was in bad taste for Chrysler to put out this snarky advert. It is obviously sarcastic. It knows that the overwhelming majority of Americans were against it, but were forced by their democratic rulers to give it up anyway. Therefore this is a bit of bitchy snottiness directed at the taxpayers.
The black gal w/ long hair….in the middle? I’m pretty sure she was on the Sgt. Pepper cover.